Mandi: The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme Act (MNREGA) is all set to be linked to the consumer price index to determine its

Taking serious note of the observation of experts Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has mooted several urgent steps to restructure and improve the work ratio under National Rural Employment Generation Scheme.

The NREG expert and professor of economics Jean Dreze during his recent visit to the State had placed Bihar as one of the worst performing States in the country.

Fertility of 17.14 lakh hectares has been improved and more than 65 lakh fruit saplings planted in Madhya Pradesh as part of the Nandan Falodyan Sub-Scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

''The planting has been undertaken over 23,578 hectares,'' Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Gopal Bhargava said today on the occasion of the Earth Day.

Hyderabad, April 21: Admitting the presence of middlemen and contractors in the prestigious National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (NREGS), the rural development ministry announced that it would appoint ombudsmen in every district who would be entrusted with the responsibility of examining all complaints of irregularities pointed out by the social audit and passing

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Chief Secretary Avani Vaish reviewed the progress of under-construction irrigation projects at a meeting at the Mantralaya here today. The Chief Secretary instructed the officers to complete those minor irrigation projects on priority basis whose 80 per cent work has been completed so that they can benefit ensuing crops.

Patiala: Farmers are in a fix over the massive labour shortage ahead of the paddy sowing and transplantation season. They are finding it difficult to find labourers not only to work in their fields, but also as domestic help.

The Centre, on Tuesday, blamed the banks for non-achievement of annual targets of the poverty alleviation programme, Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana.

The SGSY is a credit-cum-subsidy scheme. While subsidy is only a minor and enabling component, credit is an important component of the scheme that envisages involvement of the banking sector.

Kakinada, April 20: Leaders and activists of the Telugu Desam party under the leadership of former minister, Mr Chikkala Ramachandra Rao, and the MLC, Mr N.